Michael Goodliffe

Michael Goodliffe

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts. Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire (now Merseyside), the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of World War II, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany. Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Coward's Post Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists. After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best known film was A Night to Remember (1958) in which he played Thomas Andrews, builder of the RMS Titanic. His best known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance. Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape, whilst a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Goodliffe,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1914-10-01
Place of Birth: Bebington, Cheshire, England
Also Known As: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe

Movies List of Michael Goodliffe

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A Night to Remember

1958 Movie
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Peeping Tom

1960 Movie
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Von Ryan's Express

1965 Movie
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Cromwell

1970 Movie
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The Gorgon

1964 Movie
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Testament of Orpheus

1960 Movie
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Dial 999

1955 Movie
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Wicked as They Come

1956 Movie
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633 Squadron

1964 Movie
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The Connoisseur

1966 Movie
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The Small Back Room

1949 Movie
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The One That Got Away

1957 Movie
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Three Crooked Men

1958 Movie
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Sink the Bismarck!

1960 Movie
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The 5th Day of Peace

1970 Movie
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Jigsaw

1962 Movie
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Quentin Durward

1955 Movie
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The 7th Dawn

1964 Movie
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The End of the Affair

1955 Movie
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The Fixer

1968 Movie
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The Jokers

1967 Movie
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Up the Creek

1958 Movie
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Sea Devils

1953 Movie
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Fortune Is a Woman

1957 Movie
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Troubled Waters

1964 Movie
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Stop Press Girl

1949 Movie
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Conspiracy of Hearts

1960 Movie
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80,000 Suspects

1963 Movie
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The Wooden Horse

1950 Movie
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The Hour of 13

1952 Movie
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Family Portrait

1950 Movie
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The White Trap

1959 Movie
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Don't Be Like Brenda

1973 Movie
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Woman of Straw

1964 Movie
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Number Six

1962 Movie
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The £20,000 Kiss

1962 Movie
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Macbeth

1970 Movie
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Plan for Coal

1952 Movie
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The Company Man

1970 Movie
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Chaucer's England

1958 Movie
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Further Up the Creek

1958 Movie
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Front Page Story

1954 Movie
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No Love for Johnnie

1961 Movie
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Still Life

1970 Movie
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Man in the Middle

1964 Movie
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Ocean Terminal

1952 Movie
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Link Span

1956 Movie